Landscapes and Societies in Medieval Europe East of the Elbe: Interactions Between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations

Foreword ix
Contributors xi
Sunhild Kleingärtner, Sébastien Rossignol and Donat Wehner / Introduction: Perceptions, Reconstructions, and
Interdisciplinary Research 3
I. Central Europe in the Early Middle Ages
Artur Błażejewski / Cultural Changes in the Upper Basin of the Odra River at the Close of Antiquity 27
Martin Gravel / Distances, communications et expansion territoriale dans l’Empire carolingien 42
Ulrich Schmölcke and Hauke Jöns / Livestock in Early Medieval Ports of Trade on the Baltic Sea: The 'Emporium Reric' and Other Northern German Sites 54
Timothy P. Newfield / Early Medieval Landscapes of Disease: The Origins and Triggers of European Livestock Pestilences, 400–1000 CE 73
II. Wagria and the Polabian Slavs in the Central Middle Ages
Magdalena Wieckowska-Lüth / The Settlement History of the Ostholstein Lakeland Area in the Middle Ages, as Revealed by Palynological Records 117
Sarah Nelly Friedland / Network Analysis in Slavic Archaeology: An Example from the Plön Area in Wagria (Schleswig-Holstein) 139
Ingo Petri / Metal Production and Metalworking in Eastern Schleswig-Holstein in the Slavic Period 171
III. Silesia, Poland and Hungary in the High Medieval Transformation Period
Przemysław Wiszewski / Politics and Change: The Silesian Dukes and the Transformation of the Land in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 183
Piotr Górecki / People, Land, and Settlement 'East of the Elbe,' 1150–1310: A Very Large Subject in a Very Small Place 204
Krzysztof Fokt / Archaeological Remarks on High and Late Medieval Rural Landscapes in Silesia and Upper Lusatia 226
Tomasz Gidaszewski, Marta Piber-Zbieranowska, Jarosław Suproniuk and Michał Zbieranowski / Transformations of the Natural Landscapes of the Middle Noteć Region from the Tenth to the Sixteenth Century 245
Cameron M. Sutt / 'The Empty Land' and the End of Slavery: Social Transformation in Thirteenth-Century Hungary 274
IV. The Baltic Sea Area in the High and Late Middle Ages
Heidi M. Sherman / Staking the Novgorodian Frontier: Ladoga's Twelfth-Century Churches as Landscape Markers 291
Ülle Sillasoo / A Cultural History of Food Consumption in Medieval Livonian Towns 316
Daniel Zwick / Dynamics for Cultural Change in the Baltic Sea Region in the Age of the Northern Crusades: A Maritime Perspective 329
Sébastien Rossignol / Concluding Remarks and Thoughts for Future Research 379
Index 397